10 Things I Learned In The Box:

1. Neon light was a very good thing for attracting people at night to my window.
2. Display windows offer no true alone time.
3. I posses no mood when I'm alone.
4. Being seen creating makes one attractive.
5. Living in display windows insulates one from rejection.
6. Next time I live in a display window I need to do it without smoking so I never step outside the building, not even once.
7. People liked to police me if they saw me outta' the box.
8. My drawings and collages are evolving in a sensible way.
9. Thinking of new things to make was never a problem.
10. It was an honor to be able to do exactly what I wanted; it was a vacation (not a job).

My new Artist Statement, brief bio...

••••••••••Chad Sorg chadsorg@gmail.com 775-287-9559

••••••••••artistic vision

As an artist, I endeavor to standardize or replicate my personal vision–syle, join together the body of work, the look, the feel, the touch, the style; but ten years later, I'm still saying this: I hope that never happens to my art–standardization(?) inevitably though, it someday will or maybe has. This is true, I will one day have style and my paintings will be praised for such style, oh that style; a good Style–how very modern.

Usually, the paintings give a sense of depth; physically/optically. From sopped on oil paint, my work ranges through shiny, smooth & clear to dry, murky, scratched with crayons, sputters of varnishes and resin in combination with various mixed-in substances strewn–plaster, marble powder, bronze powder and metallics. Very left-brainy.

Sometimes found objects such as stickers, beads or collaged strips, flat forms of white melamine board are applied to the surface for a haphazard look. These objects on top sometimes contrast the painting's impression of depth, so they may float. I want to make what seems 'like' a painting or a kind of cartoon of a painting–good Replication–how very post-modern.

Rapid and impulsive painting strokes and swishes of the spray can or putty knife build up a colorful pile of stripes in color in always rapid application; Movement and bounciness abounds. Rapid, light, floating energy.

Graphite renditions of faces and figures have been drawn freehand from magazines and historical photos, fashion magazines, and from military uniformed people. The act of drawing these people can be obsessive and in contrast to the colorful painting, making them seems to stimulate my left brain. I find that the faces lead passage for the eye, quickly zipping across the surface from one person to another. Constellations of faces. This part reflects my actual life.

With both the physical application and conceptions of meaning in my work, my challenge remains, whether to cloud or to clarify.

••••••••condensed biography

Originally from Fort Wayne Indiana, Chad Sorg, 33, attended Indiana University and then Collins College in Tempe Arizona, earning an associate degree in graphic design.

Sorg has subsidized his artistic life with income from sources as diverse as airbrushing T-shirts & cars, snowplow operator for Indiana DOT, cement truck driver for one summer as well as working in a steel foundry, a high-rise window cleaner (in three states), advertising designer, B-movie box cover artist, muralist, gallery owner (twice).

"I worked at KFC for a couple days and was once a knife sharpener–oh and I worked as a scenic artist on a video game, I've also taught Flash animation at TMCC for a semester and photography at the Nevada Museum of Art School."

Sorg has created art for 9 corporate commissions locally including:
Reno Hilton Suites
Redhawk Golf Course
Great Basin Credit Union
First Independent Bank
Carson Tahoe Hospital
Carson Tahoe Cancer Center
Renown Hospital–Stremmel Gallery
Victorian Square–City Of Sparks

He's currently contracted through the Nevada Arts Council to deliver and install their Nevada Touring Initiative exhibitions statewide. He also writes arts & culture stories for Reno News & Review and others publications online and print.

Chad and his wife Amy have been married for 11 years. They've known each other since the 2nd grade–how god-damn cute!?

fame.

So today is a special day for me. It's sunday, theres' snow on the ground but my thoughts are on the future. it says right there under my name what it is I'm jazzed about today:

I have 40 tribe friends! good number.

Now I've been working with the coolest fucking people in the world, yeah here in Reno and I don't take them for granted. Some day I would like to keep a running tally of my flesh-based friends, but for now my number is 40.

And what are these cool people working on, dear blog reader might ask?

FAME brutha. That's what it takes to have a career as an artist and that's what my friends and I are building up here. Yeah I may have heard it a couple times, "you gotta go to New York" and to that I say, let's do something different. Why not Reno?

I like it here and I've met some fascinating frickin' people. I believe in their imagination. Isn't that enough reason to be loyal to my city? I like to do things the hard way. Why? because people respect that.

In the future they'll be saying "you gotta go to Reno maaan!" There's gold in them there hills.

talk is cheap

I just couldn't stand to look at this blank blog anymore. I got an idea...
no, never mind..


Anyway Here I am.
Life in Reno, life as an artist, married life. Wow, it's all pretty heady. I don't know if I can handle the excitement any longer.

I really gotta think of something to talk about. You need to be entertained and I need more friends, I think I'm up to like 25, respectable I suppose but I have a competitive streak, I needs more. MORE MORE MORE...

I mean, I'm clean, I might like the F word, but I'm nice and I'm not bad lookin'.

I'M NOT A DICK

Who are your friends? Bring 'em on over.

I'll add more photos, maybe that'll help...